Back-to-School News Tip: U.S. Schoolchildren Given Less Time to Eat Than Prison Inmates; 15-Minute Lunches Mean Kids Eat While Standing in Line.

AScribe Health News Service, August, 2003

Byline: Lehigh University

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Aug. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research out of Lehigh University's College of Education should sound an alarm for parents: American school children are being robbed of valuable life-long lessons. Dr. Karen Evans Stout's research reveals students in American schools are given less time to eat than prison inmates.

Stout, associate professor, educational leadership program in Lehigh University's College of Education, believes sharing a meal has the potential to help students learn how to be more responsible for themselves and to care for and relate to others. Her new research project shows American school children are missing a huge opportunity that their peers in Europe are being given. Stout is looking at how...

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